The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly;… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image